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List of Slovaks

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This is a list of Slovaks and of individuals of significance to the territory of present-day Slovakia.

See also: History of Bratislava - Historic personalities

Politics

Politicians (contemporary)

Politicians (20th century)

Medieval rulers

Fighters, Warriors, Soldiers and Revolutionaries

  • Jozef Gabčík (1912-1942) - a soldier involved in the Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich
  • General Ján Golian (1906-1945) - one of the main organizers of the Slovak National Uprising
  • Theodor von Lerch (1869-1945) - general staff officer; born in Bratislava; instructor of the Japanese army, introduced skiing in Japan, writer
  • Lajos Kossuth (1802-1894) - Hungarian revolutionary, he was Slovak on his father's side--to the point that his uncle was a strong Slovak nationalist
  • Abrahám Rúfus (Abrahám Ryšavý / Červený) (around 1300) – warrior, reconquered southwestern Slovakia from Austria in 1291
  • Michael Strank - U.S. marine during World War II, was photographed in Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
  • Ladislav Škultéty-Gábriš (1738-1832), the ”eternal soldier” – serving as much as 80 years as sergeant of the Austrian army, the longest lasting military service ever recorded, took part in more than 250 battles and survived five Habsburg emperors
  • Imre Thököly (Imrich/Emericq Tököly/Tökölli/Tököli)(1657-1705) - Hungarian leader of anti-Habsburg (Kuruc) rebellion, born/graved in Kežmarok, Slovakia

First Ladies

Religion

Saints

Blessed

Religious Leaders

  • Štefan Moyses (1797- 1869) - bishop, patriot, the first president of the Matica Slovenská, the first Slovak cultural institution
  • Peter Pázmaň (Péter Pázmány) (1570-1637) - archbishop, leading personality of counter-reformation in historic Hungary
  • Jozef Roháček (1877-1962) - protestant activist and scholar (first Slovak Bible translated from the original languages)
  • Alexander Rudnay (1760-1831) - archbishop
  • Juraj Selepčéni Pohronec (Szelepcsény György) – archbishop
  • Chatam Sófer (1762-1839) - a famous (German born) rabbi of Bratislava

Science and Technology

Philosophers, Polyhistors, Teachers

Linguists, Humanists and Historians

  • Anton Bernolák (1762-1813) – author of the first Slovak language standard (in the 1780s), which was based on western Slovak dialects
  • Ľudovít Štúr (Ludevít Štúr) (1815-1856) - best known for his rôle in the development of the modern Slovak language (in 1844 he suggested that the central Slovak dialect would be used as the literary language of the Slovaks and in 1846 he codified for the first time the new language standard in his "Nauka reči Slovenskej" [Theory of the Slovak language])
  • Martin Hattala (1821-1903) - linguist
  • Jozef Mistrík (1921-2001) – linguist
  • Ján Sambucus (Johann Sambucus) (1531-1584) – a famous humanist at the royal court in Vienna, a historian of the emperor Maximilian II, publisher of works of the Ancients, creator of the biggest private library in the world at that time
  • Pavol Križko (1841-1902) - historian
  • Adam František Kollár (Adam Franz Kollar) (1718-1783) - historian, royal councelor and librarian of the Imperial Library in Vienna

Inventors and Engineers

  • Ján Vlk Kempelen (Johann Wolfgang von Kempelen, Kempelen Farkas) (1734-1804) - poly-technician and inventor, built the first fountain and pressure water piping, designed a chess machine, a speaking machine and a special typewriter for the blind
  • Jozef Murgaš (1864-1929) – inventor of the wireless telegraph (forerunner of the radio). Murgas' "Rotary-spark-system" allowed for much faster communication, through the use of musical tones. He patented his new invention, which is now listed as the "Wireless Telegraphy Apparatus", as well as more inventions in this field. These patents would go on to form the foundations for the invention of the radio. Also devised a system which greatly improved the Morse code. His other patents include the spinning reel (for fishing), the wave meter, the electric transformer, the magnetic detector, and an engine producing electromagnetic waves.
  • Ján Andrej Segner (Johann Andrea von Segner, Segner János András) (1704-1777) - physician, physicist, mathematician, designed a reactive water engine - the so-called Segner wheel, inventor of the water turbine principle (which is the basis for the functioning of modern space rockets)
  • Jozef Maximilián Petzval (Josef Maximilian Petzval, Petzval Józeph Miksa) (1807-1891) – mathematician, optician, constructor of camera zoom lens, he is considered by many to be the founder of modern photography, he is most renowned for his work on optical lenses in the 1840's (invention of the portrait objective), which was instrumental in the construction of modern cameras, he is also remembered for greatly improving the telescope, microscope and designing the opera glass.
  • Aurel Stodola (1859-1942) – engineer and professor, enabled the construction of steam and gas turbines (around 1900), constructor of a movable artificial arm (the Stodola arm) in 1915
  • John Dopyera (Ján Dopjera) (1893-1988) – inventor of music instruments, invented dobro resonator guitar

Aviation

  • Ján Bahýľ (1865-1916) – military engineer, inventor of the motor-driven helicopter (four years before Bréguet and Cornu). Bahyl was granted 7 patents in all, including the invention of the tank pump, air balloons combined with an air turbine, the first petrol engine car in Slovakia (with Anton Marschall) and a lift up to Bratislava castle.
  • Štefan Banič (1870-1941) - the inventor of the military parachute and of the first actively used parachute
  • Andrej Kvasz (1883-1974) - aviation pioneer

Electrotechnics

Mining

  • Ján Thurzo I (Johannes Thurzo I) (1437-1508) - mining engineer, enterpreneur, together with the Fuggers founder of the biggest copper producing and trading company in the world of the 1st half of the 16th century - probably the first capitalist company in the world
  • Ján Dernschwam (Hans Dernschwam) (1494-1567) - a mining expert, chief manager of the Fugger-Thurzo Company in Banská Bystrica
  • Jozef Karol Hell (Joseph Karl Hell) (1713-1789) - mining engineer active in central Slovakia, has influenced the mining technology considerably, inventor of the water-pillar pump machine (his first machine could pump water up from the depth of 212 meters), which is used till today for oil extraction
  • Izák Potter (Issac Potter) (1690-1735) - born in England, living and working in Banská Štiavnica, engineer, constructor of the first athmospheric steam engine in Europe (in Nová Baňa, in 1723)

Natural Sciences and Medicine

Geology, Mineralogy

Geography

Archeology

Economics

Physics

  • Dionýz Ilkovič (1907–1980) famous Slovak physicist
  • Pavel Kray (1735-1804) – field marshal, mathematician, engineer, architect, participant of the Seven Years War and of the Turkish War (1788-1789), defeated the Peasant Uprising in Transylvania in 1786
  • Filip Anton Eduard Lenard (Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard, Lénárd Fülöp) (1862-1947) – a German Nobel prize holder (1905) for physics born in Bratislava, founder of quantum physics

Mathematics

Astronomy

Astronomers

  • Maximilián Hell (Maximilian Hell, Hell Miksa) (1720-1792) – Jesuit priest and astronomer, designed the observatory of the Trnava University, director of the Imperial Observatory in Vienna
  • Jakub Pribicer (1539-1582) Astronomer

Astronomers (20th century)

Astronauts

  • Ivan Bella (1964) – the first astronaut of Slovakia (in 1998)
  • Eugene Cernan (1934) – U.S. astronaut, Last man to set foot on the Moon, son of the Slovak immigrant Ondrej Čerňan

Misc

Culture

Literature

Journalism

Music

Classical

Composers
Conductors
Instrumentalists
Opera Singers
Misc

Jazz

  • Peter Lipa (1943) - the most important current Jazz singer, composer
  • Gabriel Jonáš (1948) – Jazz musician, multiinstrumentalist, composer
  • Jano Baláž (1951) - guitarist, singer, composer
  • Oliver Buc (1975) - guitarist, singer, composer currently living in Chicago, US
  • Karol Duchoň (1950-1985) - singer (pre-rock period)
  • Gejza Dusík (1907-1988) - composer, musician, author of many evergreens (1st half of the 20th century)
  • Martin Ďurinda (1961) – singer of Tublatanka (a band having reacher its height around 1990)
  • Jozef Ráž (1954) - current singer of Elán (a band having reached its height in the 1980s)
  • Karol Elbert (1911) - composer, musician (1st half of the 20th century)
  • Boris Filan (1949) - text-writer for many Slovak bands
  • Marika Gombitová (1956) - singer, composer, musician in the 1980s and early 1990s
  • Pavol Habera (1962) - singer, composer, musician (reached his height around 1990)
  • Pavol Hammel (1948) - singer, composer, musician (reached his height the 1970s and 1980s)
  • Jana Kocianová (1946) - singer (pre-rock period)
  • Marcela Laiferová (1945) - singer (pre-rock period)
  • Ján Lehotský (1947) - composer, musician, singer of Modus (a band having reached its height in the late 1970s)
  • Laco Lučenič (1952) - musician, producer, member of Modus
  • Richard Müller (1961) - the best-known current Slovak pop-rock singer
  • Peter Nagy (1959) - pop singer, text-writer (reached his height in the late 1980s and early 1990s)
  • Vašo Patejdl (1954) - the most important Slovak pop composer in the 1980s and 1990s, singer, musician
  • Kamil Peteraj (1945) - text-writer
  • Dežo Ursiny (1947-1995) - composer, rock singer, musician in the 1960s and 1970s
  • Marián Varga (1947) - rock composer, musician in the 1960s and 1970s
  • František Krištof Veselý (1903-1977) - singer from the early popular music period
  • Pavol Zelenay (1928) - swing composer, musician
  • Miroslav Žbirka (1952) - singer, composer from the 1970s to the 1990s

Fine Arts

Painters, Graphic Artists

Sculptors

Photographers

Architects

Film and Theatre

Actors

Filmmakers

Dance, Choreography

Sports

Football

Ice Hockey

see the long list in a separate article

Tennis

Water sports

Other

Legendary historical Personalities

Nobles and noble Families

see dedicated article

  • Balaša (Balassa) - a prominent Slovak noble family (from the 14th century onwards)
  • Bubek (Bebek) - a prominent Slovak-Hungarian noble family around the 15th century
  • Druget (Drugeth) - a prominent Slovak noble family from the 14th to the 17th century (originally from Naples)
  • knight Donč of Balaša (?-1344)- an important Slovak noble in the early 14th century
  • Forgáč (Forgach) - a prominent Slovak noble family in the Middle ages
  • Alexander of Hunt-Poznan (around 1200) - a prominent Slovak noble
  • Lords of Jelšava (Ilsvay) – a prominent Slovak noble family around the 14th century
  • Lords of Pavlovce (Palóci) – a prominent Slovak noble family in the Middle ages
  • Omodej of Aba (Amadé, Amadeus) (?-1311) – a prominent noble in eastern Slovakia
  • Milványi-Česnegi a prominent Slovak-Hungarian noble family in Žitný ostrov
  • Peréni (Perényi, Lords of Perín) - a prominent Slovak noble family from the 13th to the 16th century
  • Podmanický – a prominent Slovak noble family (from the 15th century onwards)
  • Poznan – a prominent Slovak noble family in Great Moravia and later in Hungary (wrongly called Pázmány by Hungarian texts)
  • Kozma of Poznan (12th century)– a prominent Slovak noble
  • Rozgoň (Rozgonyi, Lords of Rozhanovce) – a prominent Hungarian-Slovak noble family in the late Middle ages
  • Séči (Széchy, Lords of (Rimavská)Seča) - a prominent Slovak noble family from the 17th century
  • Thököly (Tököly, Tökölli, Tököli) - a prominent Hungarian-Slovak noble family living in Slovakia in the 16th and 17th century
  • Leustach z Jelšavy (14th century) - a Slovak noble and warrior

Models and Beauties

Miscellaneous

See also

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